<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Steve M:
In the case of a credit card, it's supposedly the payments during the past 12 months that count, not just the fact that you were able to run up a balance (anyone can do that 
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Exactly. The better question is how to run it up, convert it to cash, and quickly pay it off.
[This message has been edited by ironmanjt (edited 08-19-2003).]